Lunney attack reminder of 'punishment beatings'

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said the attack on businessman Kevin Lunney is a reminder of the "gangland paramilitary-style punishment beatings of the past" as a way of intimidating people.

Speaking during Leaders' Questions in the Dáil, he said it was an "act of cowards" who have no regard for the rule of law. Mr Coveney said a completely innocent person coming home from work had been brutally pulled from his car by a gang of masked men and beaten and then left in the ditch. He was responding to Fianna Fáil's Dara Calleary, who said the attack on Mr Lunney had stopped people in their tracks.

simoncoveney Ahhh ahhh ahhh,Jesus I thought Varadker was bad,do they not teach ye how to speak in those private schoolsOr just become criminals.

simoncoveney He really needs to learn how to speak in public... Ehhh ehhh ehhh ehhh

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